Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.

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1 He made over fifty first ascents of peaks between the Jotunheim and the North Cape .
2 Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes .
3 As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago .
4 He looked in that first moment like a spaceman who had landed suddenly and unexpectedly on a strange planet .
5 And of course DaSilva erm , not flashing those strokes round like he did on that first innings er , playing a very sensible innings from the point of view of Sri Lanka , but his erm , have n't seen many of his flashing strokes .
6 For a second Yanto remained rooted to the spot ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he gasped From that first moonlit glimpse he knew he had a specimen here .
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